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Fencing had a strong performance at the NCAA Northeast Regionals on March 9 before heading to the NCAA championships beginning on March 20.
Fencing finished its regular season last Wednesday, hosting the George Kolombatovich Historical Meet. With six victories to close out their campaign, the Lions ended the season with a 33-2 record for the women’s team and a 29-3 record for the men.
Men’s and women’s fencing fell short of clinching the Ivy League championship this weekend, finishing in second place.
Fencing returned to the strip in the Brian Palestis Memorial Meet on Sunday at Wagner College. The Lions swept the meet with a 6-0 combined record from the men’s and women’s squads.
Fencing returned to the strip this past Sunday to compete at the Penn State Invitational in University Park, Pennsylvania. The Lions dominated the invitational, ending with an overall record of 11-0. The women’s team finished with an overall meet record of 6-0, while the men’s came away with a 5-0 record.
Men’s and women’s fencing had excellent 5-1 and 6-1 runs respectively in their first two tournaments to start the new year, dominating at the Tiger Invitational and the St. John’s Super Cup.
Men’s and women’s fencing went undefeated in their first home meet of the season in the Columbia Invitational, hosted in Dodge Fitness Center on Nov. 22.
The men’s and women’s fencing teams started off their season strong at the Elite Invitational in Philadelphia on Nov. 16 and 17 with a complete sweep for the women’s squad and a 6-1 record for the men’s squad.
Jackie Dubrovich, CC ’16, strode out under the glass dome of the Grand Palais on Thursday night. With twenty-foot-high images of her and her teammates behind her, Jackie set her sights on the final strip of her fencing career. She was set to face the Italians, a longtime dominant force in world fencing with two world champions on their team.
PARIS—Jackie Dubrovich, CC ’16, and her teammates took home Olympic gold from the women’s foil fencing team event on Thursday night. Her victory marks a historic moment for the United States, as it is the country’s first-ever gold medal in the team foil event.
